Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in electronic educational technology are making it possible for learners in nations all around the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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